1. Time & Culture
Sept. 20th, 2016

2. Canadian Time Zones

3. Coordinated Universal Time (utc)
Coordinated Universal Time is the basis for civil time in many places worldwide.
Time zones around the world are expressed as positive or negatives offsets from UTC. The hours, minutes, and seconds that UTC expresses is kept close to the mean solar time at the Earth’s prime meridian (zero degrees longitude) located near Greenwich, England.

4. There are 6 time zones in Canada
Newfoundland Time Zone (UTC 3h30 Standard Time)
Atlantic Time Zone (UTC 4h Standard Time)
Eastern Time (UTC 5h Standard Time)
Central Time (UTC 6h Standard Time)
Mountain Time (UTC 7h Standard Time)
Pacific Time (UTC 8h Standard Time)

7. Questions: What time zone is Saskatchewan in?
What time zone is Ontario in?
If it is 9:00 AM in Regina, what time is it in Victoria using standard time?
If it is 9:00 AM in Regina, what time is it in Nova Scotia using standard time?
If it is 9:00 AM in Regina, what time is it in Edmonton using standard time?

8. Daylight saving time (DST)
DST is the practice of advancing clocks during the lighter months so that evenings have more daylight and mornings have less.
Daylight Saving Time begins on the second Sunday in March and returns to Standard Time on the first Sunday in November.

9. Questions:
Are we currently in day light savings or standard time in Canada?
If it is 3:00 p.m. in Regina, what time is it in Calgary using daylight saving time?
If it is 3:00 p.m. in Regina, what time is it in Winnipeg using daylight savings time?
If it is 3:00 p.m. in Regina, what time is it in Ottawa using daylight saving time?

10. Culture & Time

11. Not everyone in the world views the concept of time in the same way.
In fact, some cultures don’t even make time a part of their lives.
Some cultures are wary of time passing by, while others run their lives by the clock.

12. Cultures that have Time

13. First Nation Perspective of Time
Most First Nations Peoples used oral history. These cultures are still aware of the past, present, and future, but they do not divide time into years and dates.
They understand all events as they relate to the present. They rely on the time divisions of nature, not that of seconds, minutes, etc. They use night and day, the sun, phases of the moon, and the seasons in order to tell time.

14. A look at other cultures:
Cultures that use Time:
The Japanese live their lives strictly by time. The Japanese run on time because of their extremely low tolerance for being late and delayed. Japanese culture has a very strict sense of time. A great example of this rigid view toward promptness can be seen in the Japanese train system. If the train departure is at 6:00 PM., any minute over that time is considered to be extremely late. Unlike Canadian society where if there is a minute or two delay, it is still considered to be ‘on time.’

15. An American Perspective
For an American, time is truly money. It flows fast and if you want to benefit from its passing, you have to move fast with it.
Americans are people of action, once the past is over it is over. But the present you can seize and make it work for you in the immediate future.
Within the present you will have your schedule, and plans set for the future. However, once those events happen we do not tend to look much into the past about them. (unless they are personally significant or historically significant).

16. Cultures with a different use of time:
Nomadic Tribes of Afghanistan & Iran:
These peoples of nomadic tribes do not feel tied down by time in any other form than the seasons.
In the spring, they migrate from the valleys to the mountains, where they will find richer and more abundant grasslands for their animals. When the warm days of summer have passed, the nomads head back to the valleys from which they came in spring.
This cycle continues throughout their entire lives.

17. Cultures with little sense of time:
The Piraha Tribe:
This small native tribe of the Amazon rainforest has an extremely limited language. Their language has no past tense.
This provides the idea that this tribe has no ‘real’ concept of time.
Everything exists in the present. When it can no longer be perceived, it effectively ceases to exist to them.

18. Gateway Assignment #1
Using Standard time, what time is it in Halifax if it is 1:00 pm in Regina.
Using Daylight Savings Time, what time is it in Montreal if it is 6:00 pm in Regina.
Explain each of the four different concepts of time we have discussed in your own words.
For each of the cultural groups that we looked at, summarize their views of time and what concept of time their views are associated with.
If you were to live by a certain concept of time, which one would it be and why?
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